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Spoofing Meaning

Spoofing is a form of market manipulation where a trader places large "Fake" buy or sell orders with no intention of executing them. The goal is to create a False Impression of supply or demand to "Trick" other traders (and trading bots) into moving the price in a certain direction.

Once the price moves, the "Spoofer" cancels their fake orders and profits from the market's reaction.Technically, spoofing exploits the "Order Book." A bot might place a $10 million buy order just below the current price, making it look like there is a "Wall of Support." Other traders, seeing this, start buying. As the price rises, the spoofer cancels the order and sells their actual position at the higher price.

This is illegal in traditional markets (like the US stock market) but is rampant and harder to police in the unregulated "Offshore" crypto exchanges.Spoofing is the primary reason why "Retail Traders" are warned not to trust the "Depth" of an order book blindly. Sophisticated "Market Makers" use algorithms to detect spoofing patterns, but "Flash Crashes" can still occur if a large "Fake" order is suddenly pulled during a period of low liquidity.

As the crypto market matures and more "Regulated Exchanges" take over, "Anti-Spoofing" surveillance is becoming a standard feature of the industry's infrastructure.

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